Bloodshed IN JNU-Masked ‘ABVP' men brutally attack students, professors

18 STUDENTS, TWO PROFESSORS SEVERELY INJURED, ADMITTED IN AIIMS

NEW DELHI: Violent clashes broke out between two groups of students in JNU on Sunday evening resulting in several injuries to many students and professors including JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh and one faculty Sucharita Sen of the Centre for Development of Regional Studies.

Around 18 students and two professors were admitted to AIIMS with serious injuries. Ghosh was immediately taken to AIIMS Trauma Centre as she was badly injured and was bleeding heavily from the head.

“I have been brutally attacked by goons who were wearing masks. I am not in the condition to talk,” she said.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi visited injured students and professors at AIIMS and both the Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who are both former students of JNU, condemned the violence in their Alma mater.

ABVP members were blamed for carrying the attack inside the campus, but the allegation was later denied by ABVP National Secretary, who said the party members were attacked by the left supporters. The pictures and videos surfaced after the violence, however, showed the opposite scenario in and around the campus. It is seen in the videos that Masked ABVP supporters from outside the campus are beating students and professors with hockey sticks and iron rods.

Despite such violence being instilled inside the campus, about 200 members mainly belonging to ABVP, surrounded the main campus gate, and chanted “Desh Ke Gaddaron Ko, Goli Maron S***n Ko”.